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Epiphanios Kamateros (eleventh/twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Mother of God orans holding the medallion of the Christ Child before her. Sigla: μρ̅Θ̅Υ: Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription in four lines. Border of dots.

ΠΙ
ΦΙΟΣ
ΚΜΤ,Ρ,
ΟΓΡΑΦ,
  

Ἐπιφάνιος Καματ(η)ρ(ὸς) ὁ γράφ(ων)

Obverse

Bust of the Mother of God orans holding the medallion of the Christ Child before her. Sigla: μρ̅Θ̅Υ: Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription in four lines. Border of dots.

ΠΙ
ΦΙΟΣ
ΚΜΤ,Ρ,
ΟΓΡΑΦ,
  

Ἐπιφάνιος Καματ(η)ρ(ὸς) ὁ γράφ(ων)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.428
Diameter 18.0 mm
Previous Editions

Cf. Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 792.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Ἐπιφάνιος Καματηρὸς ὁ γράφων.

Epiphanios Kamateros is the one who wrote this.

Commentary

Dodecasyllabic. See PBW : Epiphanios 20107 for a list of other seals attributed to the same owner.

The abbreviation mark following letter "A" in the third line of the inscription on the reverse appears to be superfluous. The fact that this mark appears consistently on several seals produced with different boulloteria makes it difficult to explain its presence by engraving error. 

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